Love horoscopes: July 21 – July 27

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On or off?

Mars enters Scorpio on July 25. Many people think of Scorpio as highly sexed (which it is) but more importantly Scorpio energy wants to get to the bottom of things. Romantic talk is cheap and you’re going to want to know where things stand with him. There will be no more waiting on him to get his act together. In fact, Mars in Scorpio has zero tolerance for ambiguity, commitment-phobia and emotional navel gazing. You've had weeks (maybe even months?) of exploring feelings and sounding each other out on a possible future together. You're either on or off. If you're on? Great. If you're off? Then rest assured that there will be hell to pay for him leading you on like this.

Negotiating the emotional terrain gets tricky on July 27 when Venus opposes Pluto. That's because Venus brings out Pluto's more obsessive and possessive qualities when she's traveling through this part of the sky. These can range from your lover irrationally accusing you of flirting with other guys to your spouse using finances to clip your wings and manipulate you. Your first reaction will be to appease, but don't. You aren't doing him any favors by going along with this. You don't want to enable a situation that would only get worse. Nip it in the bud pronto.